HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1989-13915 RESOLUTION NO. 13915
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA AMENDING THE 1987-88 LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, in December 1987, the City Council modified its
its Legislative Program in order to set forth the guidelines for
reviewing and establishing a City position related to State and
Federal legislation and policies, and
WHEREAS, staff is proposing amendments to the two-year
legislative program to reflect issues and address concerns raised
during the 1987-88 legislative session, and
WHEREAS, the intent is that the revised program will be
in effect for the entire 1989-90 session of the State Legislature
and Congress, and
WHEREAS, this report has been reviewed by the
Legislative Committee and reflects their comments as well as
input from the City Council and department heads, and
WHEREAS, it is recommended that the City Council adopt
the proposed amendments to the Legislative Program and authorize
staff and the Legislative Committee to implement that program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of
the City of Chula Vista does hereby adopt the proposed amendments
to the Legislative Program as set forth in Exhibit "A",
incorporated herein by reference as if set forth in full.
Presented by Approved as to form by
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City t orney
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Manager
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1989-90 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
I. Legislation Which Can Be Acted Upon Directly By Staff With Concurrence of
Legislative Committee
Proposed Legislation
A. Bayfront - Redevelopment
1. Support legislation adjusting Redevelopment Agency members pay
(more than $30 per meeting, up to 4 times per month)
2. Support Coordination of Federal Coastal Zone Management Act,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and State
Coastal Zone Act, in an effort to eliminate duplicate efforts
3. Oppose efforts to further control tax increments in
redevelopment projects
4. Seek Port District-State Lands Commission reorganization of
tidelands boundaries in cooperation with Rohr and Santa Fe in an
effort to make better use of land available for development
5. Request to provide additional funding for the Nature
Interpretive Center (NIC) exhibits in Environmental License
Plate (ELP) Fund (1989-90 Budget Request)
6. Oppose efforts to reduce the number of San Diego Unified Port
District Commissioners and/or require commissioners to be
elected members of the City Council which they represent
7. Support efforts which provide funding for urban waterfront
restoration projects and the enhancement of the waterfront
within the southern San Diego Bay
8. Oppose efforts to discontinue the State supplemental subvention
for redevelopment agencies.
B. Fiscal Support - Home Rule
1. Support efforts which:
a. Permit retention and control by local governments of a
greater portion of revenue generated by Federal, State, and
local taxes.
b. Require the Federal government and State to reimburse local
governments for all mandated cost or regulatory actions.
c. Retain maximum flexibility in the administration of Article
XIIIB (the Gann Initiative)
d. Encourage efforts to expand local autonomy or the home rule
authority to govern municipal affairs.
e. Enhance the quality of urban life by funding the creation,
improvement, or expansion of parks, libraries and community
services.
f. Oppose efforts to restrict or allocate the use of Transient
Occupancy Tax revenues.
g. Oppose efforts to exempt residential users from the Utility
Users' Tax.
h. Oppose efforts to reallocate fines and forfeitures
i. Oppose efforts which repeal Gas Tax exemption for local
agencies
j. Support legislation which provides state/federal funding
for construction or renovation of public buildings such as
community centers.
k. Support efforts to expand the sales tax base to include
mail order sales and home shopping sources
1. Oppose efforts to reallocate sales tax revenue
C. General Government
1. Oppose efforts to impose greater restrictions on local
government through amendment of the Brown Act
2. Oppose efforts to mandate district elections in all cities
and/or school districts
3. Support legislation to eliminate the State's requirement which
mandates Project Committee and/or Boards & Commissions members
to complete a financial disclosure statement
4. Support efforts to free the sample ballot of campaign rhetoric
and distortion
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5. Support efforts to return the "positive purge" method of
removing excess names from the voter registration roles
6. Support efforts to limit to 1% the amount of administrative
costs the Board of Equalization may charge to administer local
sales taxes such as San Diego's 1/2 cent sales taxes for
transportation and justice facility construction.
7. Oppose legislation which would limit of franchise fees/taxes
imposed on cable television operators.
D. Housing & Community Development
1. Support efforts which exclude redevelopment agencies from
competitive bidding statutes and fair market value restrictions
for resale of public properties to permit joint development of
public facilities by private developers upon findings of public
benefit
2. Oppose efforts which grant the State or Federal government
approval or veto authority in the implementation of local
redevelopment and rehabilitation projects.
3. Oppose efforts to prohibit any state agency from making
subventions, financing, insurance or any other kind of
assistance, available to any city or county which has in effect
any rent control measure.
E. Land Use Planning
1. Support efforts which:
a. Strengthen local government's powers and capacity to
prepare adopt, and implement fiscal plans and programs for
orderly growth, development, beautification, and
conservation of their planning areas.
b. Encourage efforts which are consistent with the doctrine of
"home rule" and the local exercise of police powers,
through the planning and zoning processes, over local land
use.
c. Support efforts which expand the land use, conservation,
and growth management policies of municipalities to the
unincorporated territories within their spheres of
influence.
d. Broaden local government's power to require developers and
subdividers to provide the on-site and off-site facilities
and infrastructure needed by their projects.
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e. Maximize the authority of the City to exercise Local
Control over general plan decisions.
2. Oppose efforts which abridge local government's ability to
effectively plan, or regulate local land use including
amendments to the laws governing the local agency formation
(LAFCO). Specifically toward legislation which would
financially overburden local governments during the course of
their efforts to amend planning policy, regulate land use
through removal of incompatible developments, redevelop blight
areas, or annex territories which are within the spheres of
influence.
F. Public Employer-Employee Relations
1. Support efforts to protect the rights of City's to establish
conditions of employment, including hours, wages, employee
benefits, the meet and confer process, appeal procedures, and
management rights.
2. Support efforts to establish systems for those employers
breaking down traditional adversary union~management
relationships, such as Quality of Work Life programs, and that
enlist labors participation and improving productivity
3. Oppose efforts which:
a. Impose restrictions on the scope and authority of charter
cities to control their own health plans or retirement
systems.
b. Mandate the inclusion of local government employees in the
Social Security System and/or Medicare.
c. Increase workers'compensation benefits without also making
needed reforms.
d. Mandate changes, impose limitations, and/or other benefit
plans, wages, hours, or working conditions which are
properly determined through the meet and confer process.
e. Mandate mental health coverage in group health insurance
plans
f. Reduce local control over public employee disputes and
impose regulations of an outside agency (such as PERB).
g. Oppose efforts which prohibit an employer from testing an
employee or applicant for employment for illegal substances.
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G. Public Liability
1. Support efforts to change the legal principal of "joint and
several liability" to protect, the City against "deep pocket"
liability
2. Support efforts to reinforce public entity design and
discretionary act immunity
3. Oppose efforts to further erode government toward immunity.
4. Support legislation which would prohibit recovery by a plaintiff
for injury where those injuries were caused as a result of
avoiding a police pursuit.
H. Public Safety
1. Encourage efforts to strengthen local law enforcement.
a. Support efforts that strengthen present State or Federal
laws which give local governments the power to further
restrict or regulate prostitution.
b. Support legislation that increases penalties for the
manufacture of sale for profit and/or dangerous drugs
including but not limited to PCP, methamphetamine and
narcotics.
c. Support legislation that requires life sentences for repeat
offenders related to sale for profit and/or dangerous drugs.
d. Support legislation which prohibits the sale and
brandishing of replica or facsimile firearms.
e. Support legislation to toughen drunk driving laws.
f. Support legislation which requires notification be given to
local law enforcement prior to the release of a prisoner in
that County/City
g. Support legislation which strengthens the City's ability to
regulate the public display of material which is harmful to
minors
h. Oppose legislation which would preempt local ordinances
concerning Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
i. Support legislation which increases drunk driving penalties
and enhancements
j. Support legislation which provides a penalty of life
imprisonment for individuals convicted of selling deadly
drugs for profit
I. Transportation
1. Support clean-up legislation related to transportation funding
(SB300)
2. Support efforts to provide funding that would complete missing
links on the interstate; emphasis on SR 125
3. Support efforts to fund transportation
II. Legislative Items Requiring Formal Council Action
A. Bayfront-Redevelopment
1. Support Consolidate control and administration of environmental
regulations and enforcement; presently in Dept. of Interior;
Corps of Engineers; Dept. of Commerce; (NOOA); Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
B. Environmental Protection
1. Support efforts that:
a. Approve the coordination of State, Federal and local agency
responses to air quality control, energy, and environmental
protection.
b. Seek funds for facilities to capture and treat the flow of
raw sewage entering San Diego from Tijuana
c. Encourage development of environmentally sound techniques
for treating hazardous waste to reduce its volume and
eliminate any toxicity
d. Support efforts to provide funding to study the water
quality-toxic pollution in San Diego Bay
e. Encourage development of water resources facilities and
make improvements to the delta
f. Support efforts to obtain financial assistance at the
federal level to construct new and upgrade existing
secondary treatment facilities in San Diego County
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C. General Government
1. Support efforts to fund school facility construction programs.
2. Support efforts to clarify the authority of school districts to
impose facilities fees established by CH 887, Statutes of 1986
(AB 2926).
D. Housing and Community Development
1. Support efforts to:
a. Develop Federal and State participation and financial
support for creative programs to provide adequate housing
for the elderly, handicapped, and low-income persons
throughout the community
b. Maintain and create tax incentives for private
revitalization of existing commercial, industrial and
housing resources where such assistance benefits the City
E. Public Safety
1. Oppose efforts to:
a. Change/remove date and/or shift, to the employer, the
burden of proof related to firefighter cancer presumption
b. Shift to the employer, the burden of proof related to
Public Safety Aids presumption
c. Support legislation to fund the removal of abandoned
vehicles
d. Establish an abandoned vehicle program allowing the
immediate removal by the City of junk/abandoned vehicles
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ADOPTED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
~IULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, this 10th Joy of. January
19 89 , by the following vote, to--wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Moore, M~Candliss~ Nader~ Cox~ Malcolm
NAYES: Councilmembers NOne
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers None
ABSENT: Counci linetubers None . ..
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CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, JENNIE M. FULASZ, CMC, CITY CLERK of the City of Chulo Visto, Colifornio,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY thor the obove ond foregoing is o full, true ond correct copy of
RESOLUTION N0. 13915 ,ond thor the some hos not been omended or repeoled
DATED
City Clerk
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